In response to requests from instructors and students for shorter and less expensive composition readers, 40 Model Essays -- featuring material adapted from the successful The Compact Reader -- offers about half the usual number of readings for about half the price of similar books.

Preface

Introduction: Reading and Writing Barbara Lazear Ascher, The Box Man

1. Description

E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Joan Didion, The Santa Ana Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

A Debate on Capital Punishment Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice David Bruck, The Death Penalty William F. Buckley, Why Don't We Complain? Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

In response to requests from instructors and students for shorter and less expensive composition readers, 40 Model Essays -- featuring material adapted from the successful The Compact Reader -- offers about half the usual number of readings for about half the price of similar books.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Reading and Writing Barbara Lazear Ascher, The Box Man

1. Description

E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Joan Didion, The Santa Ana Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

A Debate on Capital Punishment Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice David Bruck, The Death Penalty William F. Buckley, Why Don't We Complain? Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal